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Woody Allen is back in the murder game, a subject that he revisits from time to time in his films, though he usually keeps those plots pretty serious. Think “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and “Match Point.” But while “Irrational Man” has both talk of and an act of murder at its center, it plays lighter than Allen’s more “serious” films.

Joel Edgerton is not an A-List actor ... yet. That should change this fall when he’ll be seen opposite Johnny Depp in the role of John Connolly, the FBI agent who was likely in cahoots with mobster Whitey Bulger, in the upcoming “Black...

While “Jurassic World” — starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard — couldn’t match the original (no surprise there), I rank it as an easy second place in the movie franchise. High-heel debate aside, I loved the...

There will be people who argue with me over the idea that I believe “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” released at the end of July in 1983, is an overrated, unfunny movie (with, yes, some good comic moments) that has somehow...

"Pixels" (D)Here's all you need to know about “Pixels,” the new Adam Sandler alleged comedy.After watching the film, the woman on my left said she had a throbbing headache. The man on my right said he...

There’s going to be a fight, a carefully regulated one in Madison Square Garden, in front of a crowd of thousands, with the reigning light-heavyweight champ, holding a record of 42-0, taking on yet another hopeful challenger. But first, the...

When “Nation Lampoon’s Vacation” was released in 1983, Ed Helms was 9, pretty much the perfect age to appreciate the onscreen silliness about a family jumping in a car and taking an obstacle-filled road trip to the fictional...